Bonhoeffer Research at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington, D.C. The USHMM has extensive archival and library resources pertaining to the history of Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, and related topics. Because the USHMM library collects comprehensively with respect to the history of the Holocaust and Nazi Germany, it has a definitive collection [...]
A Review of Mary Solberg’s “A Church Undone”
A Church Undone: Documents from the German Christian Faith Movement 1932-1940. Selected, Translated and Introduced by Mary M. Solberg. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2015. 486 pp. Reviewed by Stephen R. Haynes, Rhodes College Mary Solberg’s A Church Undone is a welcome addition to the literature on support for Hitler within the German Evangelical Church during the 1930s [...]
Bonhoeffer’s Black Jesus
Bonhoeffer’s Black Jesus: Harlem Renaissance Theology and an Ethic of Resistance. Reggie L. Williams. Waco TX: Baylor Univ. Press, 2014. ISBN: 978-1-60258-804-2. xii+184 pgs. $24.00 Bonhoeffer studies of the past sixty-five years have traveled along two streams, sometimes in parallel, sometimes merged. Call them thinking about Bonhoeffer and thinking with him. Thinking about Bonhoeffer has [...]
Fortress Press Releases Reader’s Edition Set of Best-Selling Bonhoeffer Volumes
Using the acclaimed Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works English translation and adapted to a more accessible format, these new editions of Discipleship, Ethics, Letters and Papers from Prison, and Life Together feature the latest translations of Bonhoeffer’s works, supplemental material from Victoria J. Barnett, and insightful introductions by Geffrey B. Kelly, Clifford J. Green, and John W. de Gruchy. Originally published in 1937, Discipleship soon [...]
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer Nachlass
Manuscripts, Notes, and Correspondence A substantial portion of Bonhoeffer’s personal library–from childhood writings to the period of his imprisonment–is archived at the Staatsbibliothek in Berlin (SBB). These manuscripts, many of them marked by Bonhoeffer’s hand, are available for on-site scholarly research. For more information, visit the Bonhoeffer page at the library’s website by clicking below. [...]